[galaxy-dev] Adding BioPython as a dependency to Galaxy

Howdy Devs,

I'd like to see BioPython added as an egg. I mentioned this on IRC, but it sort of fell off. A couple of users spoke positively about having it as a dependency.

Do any of the devs have further opinions on this? Can we add it?

Depending on BioPython would provide us with a lot of utility in the datatype/datatype conversion area. I'm, personally, interested in adding/expanding all of the datatypes from SeqIO https://github.com/biopython/biopython/tree/master/Bio/SeqIO (e.g. EMBL/GenBank/etc) and AlignIO https://github.com/biopython/biopython/tree/master/Bio/AlignIO (Stockholm/clustal/etc), and leveraging BioPython for format conversion there.

Cheers, Eric